Can A Pirated Copy of GB Effect its Performance?

[Harald4]

That's right and I still can not see because of all the tears I have spent since the NY Times reported about Job's problems to get rid of his old house.
Face it, we are in the Information Age it's not a bug-loaded piece of software that counts or a freezing computer once it is confronted with a masterpiece, or a part of it..
It's the artist's imagination
These companies are selling hardware, they spread software so you will have to own the hardware to use the software

 

[TheGimp]

Would you mind someone stealing your car for the day as long as they brought it back?

No, I wouldn't mind it, *at all*, as long as it came back to me bit-perfect (every atom intact), and was stolen in such a way that we could both use it simultaneously. In fact, provided that I could make holographic replicas of my car that holographic people could drive around, the more would be the merrier.

 

[James L]

I just got caught up on this thread and I must say, people have posted some of the most lucid arguments against software piracy / theft I have ever read. Conversely, I have read some of the most freaking idiotic defenses for it in my life (comparing stealing software to taking a car out on a test drive... what loser came up with that? Stealing software is more like taking the car of the lot with no permission, hotwiring it and taking off. THAT is called theft!).

I applaud the people who came up with the lucid points on how theft is wrong, but I must agree that trying to convince a thief that they are wrong is pointless!

Kudos to the great posts, but let's not waste anymore time on the thiefs!

Cheers,

James

 

[iMeowbot]

An EULA is not a contract. It's a license.

The distinction is very important.

If you don't agree to the terms of a software license, then your rights revert to what is allowed by default under copyright law, which is essentially nothing. If you don't agree to the EULA, you don't even get the right to install the program, because installation entails making a copy. That's one of the reasons software is often distributed as an installer package and not a draggable application, even when an installer isn't needed.

In some countries you can't even run the program without agreeing to the license, because loading the application into RAM is considered copying.

 

[rendezvouscp]

No, I wouldn't mind it, *at all*, as long as it came back to me bit-perfect (every atom intact), and was stolen in such a way that we could both use it simultaneously. In fact, provided that I could make holographic replicas of my car that holographic people could drive around, the more would be the merrier.

Very interesting point, because it seems that that is what piracy is, more or less.
–Chase